Archive for November, 2007
Tracker is an efficient, lightweight, search tool and indexer. It trawls through your hard drive to index existing files and data stores so that they could easily be found. Tracker is an object database, these objects can also have extensible user defined metadata and tags to create rich first class objects. Tracker does on your […]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). The license based on version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3) has an additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program. By […]
The Mozilla Foundation explains that it is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and that is made available for testing purposes only. What’s new; – Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform. Gecko written in C++, is an open source, web browser layout engine […]
First things first; What is the Master Boot Record (MBR)? The Master Boot Record(MBR) consists of the first 512byte (half a Kbyte) of the Hard Disk. Inside this fundamental part of the Hd are stored all the commands necessary for the PC to boot up the OS. Practically the firmware found in the ROM of […]
GeoGebra is a cross-platform, Open Source application written in Java, that puts together algebra, geometry and calculus. Created by Markus Hohenwarter of the Florclassa Atlantic University, it has received many international awards including the European and German educational software awards. GeoGebra shows the relationship between geometry and algebra and how one can constructs with points, […]